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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
big money
noun
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▪ Critics credited big money and news media for the public apathy.
▪ It was the chance to get some big money on the quick which had swayed him.
▪ Like most major issues where big money is involved, neither party is exactly a profile in courage.
▪ The big money for a Lewis-Bruno fight will come from the paying audience.
WordNet
big money

n. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks]

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Big Money (novel)

Big Money is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on January 30, 1931 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on March 20, 1931 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It was serialised in Collier's (US) from 20 September to 6 December 1930 and in the Strand Magazine (UK) between October 1930 and April 1931.

The story concerns two young men, Godfrey, Lord Biskerton "Biscuit" and his one-time inseparable comrade John Beresford "Berry" Conway, and their efforts to raise money and to woo their respective girls.

Big Money

Big Money may refer to:

  • Big Money (novel), a 1931 novel by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Big Money (novel), a novel by John Dos Passos, part of his U.S.A. trilogy
  • Big Money!, an online game produced by PopCap Games
  • "Big Money" (Game song), a single by the rapper Game
  • " The Big Money", a 1985 song by Rush
  • " The Big Money (film)", a 1958 film
  • "Big Money", a song by Big Black, from the album '' Atomizer
  • Big Money: Chota Parda Bada Game, an Indian reality game show hosted by Indian actor R. Madhavan in 2008

Usage examples of "big money".

This racket of getting some rich young dope to marry a cheap chorus girl when he was full of liquor, and then hitting him for the big money to put through a bribed annulment.

He only had a few more years to wait to receive a fortune that was held in a trust fund until his 30th birthday and although he earned a hefty salary as a management consultant, he lived as if he had already inherited big money, borrowing heavily to support a lavish and extravagant lifestyle.

Hollywood writers and actors and hangers-on spouting cheap trauma, Pinko platitudes and guilt over raking in big money during the Depression, then penancing the bucks out to spurious leftist causes.

Whether it's wise money or not, the big money is flooding into the companies that are trying to develop plantigens against the entire spectrum of HMVs, especially the ones that don't exist yet although their gene-maps are allegedly pinned to every terrorist's drawing board.

Nader is a fool, and so is anybody who votes for him in November -- with the obvious exception of professional Republicans who have paid big money to turn poor Ralph into a world-famous Judas Goat.

There was a very big money interest, and strange things happen when millions are concerned.

The stewards got the purser to back them with the big money, so that made things a good deal simpler.

Sam used to be one of my best customers, out here once a month spending big money, until he suddenly stopped coming altogether about six months ago.

My branch of the family didn't get the big money, but we're not broke, you know.